Thecus N8900 series User Manual page 139

Samba Service
Used for letting the operating system of UNIX series and SMB/CIFS of Microsoft
Windows operating system (Server Message Block / Common Internet File
System).Do the link in network protocol. Enable or Disable SMB/CIFS protocol for
Windows, Apple, Unix drive mapping.
• In some environments, due to security concerns, you may wish to
NOTE
disable SMB/CIFS as a precaution against computer viruses.
File Access Cache
File Access Cache is default Enable. This option will help to increase the
performance while single client access share folder in writing under SMB/CIFS
protocol.
Samba Anonymous Login Authentication
To enable this option, no matter there is share folder has been created in public
access. The user account and password is needed from system to access under
SMB/CIFS protocol. On the other hand, no more anonymous login is allowed.
Samba is Native mode
The Thecus IP storage is supported Samba mode options. In the ADS environment
with "Native" mode selected then Thecus IP storage is capable to become local
master position.
Optimize Block Size
This function controls the behavior of Samba when reporting available disk space.
This function was added to allow advanced administrators to increase block size to
increase write performance without re-compiling the code.
Disabled= 4k Enabled=256k
Server Signing
This is setting while Samba server has been used in US of FDCC. If the system has
used only in Windows environment choose "Mandatory" otherwise "Auto".
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